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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Al Gore

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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Audience Dangerous Information
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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Day Internet Invention Myself
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
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Ability Affect Interest Powerful Virtual
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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Environment Impact Kind Product
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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Argument Fact Law Side Yourself
We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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Business Liquid Operation Planet
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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Big Change Children Escape Moral Ourselves
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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Account Action Government People Transparent
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
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Challenge Energy Freedom Nation
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Area Digital Myself Priority Privacy Secret
As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”
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Character Dangerous Expression Opportunity Symbol
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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Future Moral Myself Nation Obligation Safety
At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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Belief Fake Physical Reality
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Funny Nature Photograph Travel
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Climate Crisis Democracy Solve
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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Climate Consequence Dangerous Global Time Warm
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
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Act Climate Dirty Disturb Energy Quick Weather
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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Believe Better Freedom Religion Separate Strong Way
Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.
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Acceptance People President Reason Truth
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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Civil History Moral Obey Play Role Thinking Understand
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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Atheist Country Faith People Religious Right

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